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Monday, July 11, 2022 Liv Racing Collective athlete Lisa Tertsch claimed her first ever World Triathlon Championship Series podium in Hamburg, Germany over the weekend. A strong performance through the swim, bike and run landed her in third place. The sprint-distance triathlon in Hamburg, Germany drew some of the world’s top women triathletes to compete on Saturday. Starting with a 750m swim in Binnenalster lake, the athletes had to navigate a 40m tunnel section under a pedestrian bridge before exiting to the first transition. Tertsch followed the lead group closely out of the water and into the bike portion of...

Sunday, July 10, 2022 Kristen Faulkner won a long-range attack in the penultimate stage of Giro d’ Italia Donne Saturday. After scoring points over three hard climbs, Faulkner moved into the lead in the mountain classification which she secured on the final stage Sunday. Less than 20km into the 112.8km stage, Faulkner went for an early breakaway on the first categorized climb following Italian climber Gaia Realini. By the top of the Fai della Paganella climb, the duo was 1:17 minutes ahead of a reduced peloton. On the 10.1km Passso Duron, Faulkner and Realini’s lead held steady at around two...

Sunday, July 10, 2022 After three top-ten finishes, Rachele Barbieri unleashed a powerful sprint Sunday to secure her spot on the podium on the final stage of the tour. Giro d’ Italia Donne culminated with a 90.5km stage from Abano Terme to Padova. Without the mountainous terrain of the previous stages, it was destined to be a bunch sprint. In the final kilometers, Liv Racing Xstra teammates positioned Barbieri toward the front of the bunch. With good position, Barbieri launched a powerful early sprint. One rider went around in the final meters, but Barbieri held on for second place. “I...

SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2022 Dylan Groenewegen gave Team BikeExchange-Jayco its first stage win of the 2022 Tour de France, powering to a hard-fought sprint victory on Stage 3 in Sønderborg, Denmark. It was an emotional win for the 29-year-old Dutchman, who joined Team BikeExchange-Jayco at the beginning of this year and was racing on his new Giant Propel Advanced SL aero road bike with a CADEX WheelSystem. This was Groenewegen’s fifth career Tour de France stage win and first since 2019. “It’s been a big comeback for Dylan,” said Team BikeExchange-Jayco head sports director Matt White. “It’s never easy changing teams and...

Friday, July 1, 2022 Giro d’Italia Donne kicked off Thursday with a 4.7km individual time trial. The short, flat course suited Team BikeExchange-Jayco riders Kristen Faulkner and Georgia Baker who finished first and second on the opening stage. After securing the win on stage one by 4 seconds Faulkner led the general classification and the points race. She would wear the first maglia rosa of the 10-stage Giro d’Italia Donne. “I’m thrilled, I never thought I’d be wearing the pink jersey at this race, so it’s a huge surprise, but it’s a great surprise and it’s definitely something that was...